was born on a farm near Lake George, on the 26th of March, 1836. He was the third son of Perry and Marion Watson. At an early age he was sent to the district school, where lie acquired, in connection with a judicious course of outside reading, a good elementary education. He soon became a member of the family of Jonathan Streeter, a Quaker teacher of that locality, where broader opportunities were afforded to pursue a higher course of education. After two or three tears he taught school, and

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... reby acquired sufficient means to farther prosecute his studies. He attended later the State Normal School at Albany, where he secured an academic: